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Charles Ogg, radio newsman
Charles Ogg, 31, a Washington, D.C.-based radio news anchor, died April 13 of cancer.
The graduate of Walnut Hills High School and Ohio University was best known as the afternoon news anchor and the primary Washington Redskins reporter at WMAL radio. Among stations where he worked were WTVN radio in Columbus and WTAM-AM in Cleveland.
'He was a great writer and an even better storyteller,' said John Matthews, WMAL radio's news director. 'I've never worked with anyone else who could reel in listeners and command their attention quite like Charles could.'
Mr. Ogg was editor of the Walnut Hills High School newspaper and the press box announcer for school football games. He was active in the vocal music departments while in high school and college.
He leaves his fiance, Julie Ryon Woodhouse of Falls Church, Va.; parents, Rosemary Ogg and Joseph Drolet of Cincinnati and Harold Ogg and Lucinda Angell of Wilmette, Ill.; stepsisters, Rene and Robin Drolet; maternal grandmother, Jean McMahan, Ashland, Ky., and paternal grandmother, Vi Ogg, of Fayetteville, N.C.
Services: 7 p.m. Saturday at Hyde Park Community United Methodist Church.
Date of announcement: 04-21-1999
ROSALIE CARRINGTON, 76, of Georgetown, Ohio, died Friday. She was a retired nurse's aide. Arrangements were through Cahall Funeral Home, Georgetown.
Date of announcement: 04-21-1999
NAOMI 'PEGGY' MAE HALL, 76, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Tuesday. She was a waitress and cook at Les & Charlotte's. Services: 11 a.m. EDT Friday at Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, Lawrenceburg. Visitation: 6 to 9 p.m. EDT Thursday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-21-1999
PAT KONERMAN, 88, of Delhi Township, died Saturday. Arrangements were through Vitt, Stermer and Anderson Funeral Home, Delhi Township.
Date of announcement: 04-21-1999
HELEN L. WRIGHT LEWIS, 82, of Madison, Ind., died Tuesday. She was a homemaker. Services: 2 p.m. EST Friday at Haskell & Morrison Funeral Home, Vevay, Ind. Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. EST Thursday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-21-1999
CYNTHIA PERRY PAYNE, 49, of Madisonville, died Tuesday. She was a criminal investigator with the Internal Revenue Service. Services: 1 p.m. Friday at Bethlehem Baptist Church, Avondale. Visitation: noon Friday at the church. Arrangements: Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Walnut Hills.
Date of announcement: 04-21-1999
CLYDE HAROLD ROBINSON II, 80, of Cincinnati, died Saturday. Services: 11 a.m. Friday at Jamison and Jamison Funeral Home, Avondale. Visitation: 10:a.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-21-1999
ANNIE M. HALLUMS ROSEMOND, 87, of Kennedy Heights, died Monday. She was a homemaker. Services: noon Saturday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Silverton. Visitation: 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-21-1999
HOWARD M. SPEIGHT, 71, of Madisonville, died Saturday. He worked for the city of Cincinnati. Services: 7 p.m. Thursday at New Mission Baptist Church, Madisonville. Visitation: 6 p.m. Thursday at the church. Arrangements: Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 04-21-1999
CLARA BELLE TOWNSON, 63, of Cincinnati, died Saturday. She was a homemaker. Services: 2 p.m. EST today at Cook Funeral Home, Brookville, Ind. Visitation: 11 a.m. EST today at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-21-1999
CARRIE V. BROOKS WILLIAMS, 88, of Forest Park, died Saturday. She was a nurse's aide. Services: 7 p.m. Thursday at Burress Temple Church of God in Christ, Lockland. Visitation: 6 p.m. Thursday at the church. Arrangements: Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Forest Park.
Date of announcement: 04-21-1999
SHIRLEY 'CHICK' WILLS, 94, of Mount Orab, Ohio, died Tuesday. He was retired from Nutone Inc. Services: 11 a.m. Friday at Thompson-Stevens Funeral Home, Mount Orab. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-21-1999
LEROY WILSON, 56, of Greenfield, Ohio, formerly of Cincinnati, died Friday. He formerly owned Winton-Hall Exxon Service Station. Arrangements were through Murray Funeral Home, Greenfield.
Date of announcement: 04-21-1999
Rev. Charles "Pat' Murphy
The Rev. Charles F. 'Pat' Murphy, the retired pastor of Walnut Hills-Avondale United Methodist Church, died Wednesday at age 93.
Rev. Murphy, of Walnut Hills, served the church for 30 years and during that time established its youth lay minister program.
He earned doctor of divinity degrees from Ohio Northern and MacMurray universities and also graduated from Drew Theological School.
Rev. Murphy served as minister at a handful of churches in Ohio, including several in Belmont, Toledo, Niles and Cleveland.
During World War II, he served as a chaplain with the Air Force in the Philippines and the Mariana Islands.
Rev. Murphy later became a trustee for Ohio Wesleyan College.
Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth, of 69 years; a son, A. Craig Murphy, of Charleston, S.C.; two grandsons; and one great-granddaughter.
Services: 1:30 p.m. Saturday at T. P. White & Sons Funeral Home, Mount Washington . No visitation.
Date of announcement: 04-23-1999
WALTER L. BAILEY, 57, of Springfield Township, died Wednesday. He was a smoker for Kahn's Meat. Services: 11 a.m. Monday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, 11400 Winton Road, Forest Park. Visitation: 10 a.m. Monday.
Date of announcement: 04-23-1999
WAYNE BRYANT, 57, of Plainfield, Ind., died Wednesday. He was a professional account manager with Kaman Industrial Technologies Corporation and an Army veteran. Services: 1 p.m. EST Saturday, Conkle Funeral Home-Hendricks Co. Chapel, Avon, Ind. Visitation: 4 to 8 p.m. EST Friday at the funeral home. Morgan-Webster-Nay Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. Memorials: Pleasant Cemetery.
Date of announcement: 04-23-1999
MARCELLA HANSELL, 56, of Cincinnati, formerly of Lawrenceburg, Ind., died Wednesday. Ms. Hansell worked for American Electric Power Co. Services: 10 a.m. Saturday at Fitch-Denney Funeral Home, 455 Ridge Ave., Lawrenceburg. Visitation: 6-9 tonight at the funeral home. Memorials: Moores Hill Life Squad.
Date of announcement: 04-23-1999
GENEVA JONES, 71, of Cincinnati, died Saturday. Ms. Jones was a school crossing guard. Services: 7 p.m. today at New Jerusalem Baptist Church, Carthage. Visitation: 5:30 p.m. today at the church. Arrangements: Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home.
Date of announcement: 04-23-1999
NATHANIEL MCADOO, 72, of Avondale, died Monday. He was a contractor for Acme Remodeling Roofing Co. Services: 11 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church, 2926 Park Ave., Walnut Hills. Visitation: 9 a.m. Saturday at the church. Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 04-23-1999
BERNICE (BARBER) NICKLES, 75, of Cincinnati, died Monday. Ms. Nickles was a homemaker. Services: 7 p.m. today at New Life Temple, 4836 Ward St., Madisonville. Visitation: 6 p.m. today at the church. Johnson Brown Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Date of announcement: 04-23-1999
MARTHA MAE POLLOCK, 76, of Cumminsville, died Monday. Services: 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Inspirational Baptist Church, Avondale. Visitation: 8:30 a.m. Saturday at the church. Arrangements: Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Walnut Hills.
Date of announcement: 04-23-1999
ANNIE M. HALLUMS ROSEMOND, 87, of Kennedy Heights, died Monday. She was a homemaker. Services: Noon Saturday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Silverton. Visitation: 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-23-1999
SHAD STINSON, 69, of College Hill, died Tuesday. He was a courier. Services: 1 p.m. Saturday at Thompson, Hall and Jordan Funeral Home, Walnut Hills. Visitation: Noon Saturday at the funeral home.
Date of announcement: 04-23-1999
Psychologist Emma Kuhn Fischer, added chapter to family's legacy
Emma Kuhn Fischer, the last of an influential Cincinnati family involved in banking, civic and cultural affairs as far back as the 1830s, died April 13. She was 94.
Mrs. Fischer served as a pediatric psychologist at Children's Hospital Medical Center for 20 years, from the early 1950s to the early 1970s. She was part of a teaching unit that did groundbreaking work in bringing child psychiatry into pediatrics.
Mrs. Fischer, who was born in Cincinnati, attended the former University School, which was founded by her mother, Setty Swarts Kuhn.
Setty Kuhn is credited with organizing or helping to found many Cincinnati institutions, including the University School, Better Housing League, Cincinnati Chamber Music Society, the first Community Gardens during the Depression, Woman's City Club, Losantiville Country Club, the League of Women Voters, the Geneva Fellowship at the University of Cincinnati, the Foreign Policy Association and the Cincinnati Peace League. In 1950, Setty Kuhn was nominated by the Better Housing League as 'Outstanding Woman of the Half-Century.'
Mrs. Fischer's father, Simon Kuhn, was a prominent Cincinnati banker, presiding over one of the companies that eventually became Fifth Third Bank.
They sent their daughter Emma on from University School to attend Vassar and the Sorbonne, but her undergraduate degree was interrupted by marriage in the mid-1920s.
'Emma Kuhn was introduced to my father, Ivan Fischer, during spring break in Vienna,' said her son, David Fischer. 'He spoke Hungarian, so they spoke to each other in French. Nine days later they were engaged.'
When Mrs. Fischer was in her 40s, she went back to school, earning both bachelor and master's degrees in psychology at the University of Cincinnati.
'This was very unusual in the 1950s for a middle-aged woman to attend college,' said her colleague, Dr. Richard E. Wolf of Hyde Park. 'She wouldn't go to graduation with the other younger students, but she had to show up for her master's degree ceremony. They insisted!'
In 1938, Mrs. Fischer and her husband helped bring an impoverished young boy and his mother out of Germany. The boy, Gunther Rosinus who now lives in Potomac, Md., was taken from foster homes in Germany by Mrs. Fischer and brought to her suburban Wyoming home. The Fischers were able to bring Rosinus' mother out of Germany in 1941, just before U.S. involvement in World War II.
'I was reunited with my mother by age 13,' said Rosinus, 'but I continued living with the Fischers until college. I went on to six years at Harvard, where I played varsity baseball.'
Mrs. Fischer leaves sons Stephen J. Fischer of Coral Springs, Fla., and David C. Fischer of Boynton Beach, Fla. Her son Peter Fischer and her husband are deceased. Mrs. Fischer also was the grandmother of eight and the great-grandmother of nine.
Services: 10 a.m. Sunday in the chapel of Hebrew Union College, Clifton. The service will be conducted by Rabbi Robert Katz. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Children's Hospital Medical Center, c/o Development Office - Adolescent Health Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, 45229.
Date of announcement: 04-24-1999
